QUOTES
While
we spend much of our time and a great deal of our treasure in preparing for war,
we see no comparable effort to establish a lasting peace. Meanwhile.those advocates
who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical
dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are entitled to ask their critics what is
so practical about war."
Well,
it was quite a century, the best of times, the worst of times; and as we run down
now toward the end of it, we can all recite our litany of despair: overpopulation;
pollution; a faltering educational system; the rich getting richer, the poor getting
poorer; racial tension; drugs; too many guns. But you know, if there's anything
I've learned, it is that we Americans do have a way of rising to the challenges
that confront us. Just when it seems we're most divided, we suddenly show a remarkable
solidarity. The 20th century may be leaving us with a host of problems, but I've
also noted that it does seem darkest before the dawn. There's reason to hope for
the 21st century. And that's the way it will be.
America's
health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.
I
think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media,
a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
It
seems to rise again when the crisis times come, and this is a time of most severe
crisis, as we all know, not just for the history of the United States and the
survival indeed of our democracy, but for the future peace of the world. And never
before probably has the need for interfaith commitment been nearly as great as
it is at this very moment.
"It
is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient
to make us safe. But help is on the way. Legislation has been proposed to create
a US Department of Peace. In the propsed Department of Peace it would organize
our present system into one conscious effort to improve humanity in achieving
peace, where true safety lies."
